Spoiler alert: this touring show about the short-lived Aztec empire includes evidence of religious practices involving human sacrifice ... of life lived on a knife edge.

“It was a continuous sacrifice over ... Martinez said. Knife cuts and even teeth marks on the bones show which ones had meat stripped off to be eaten, he said. In Aztec times, the site was ...

The temple was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war and the sun, and archaeologists have found abundant evidence of human ritual sacrifice there, suggesting this practice was key to ...

Ten minutes into the British Museum's Moctezuma exhibition, devoted to the last Aztec ... out human sacrifices and, to confirm this conclusion, 'there are no traces of blood on the knife'.

For nearly five centuries, Huey Tzompantli, a tower of skulls from the victims of Aztec ritual sacrifice, has remained little more than an intriguing rumor. But a dig by archeologists in Mexico ...

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld. When you purchase through links ...

Displayed in the British Museum is a finely-crafted Aztec knife, dating from around 1500, with a richly-decorated handle. It had a brutal purpose - human sacrifice. In ancient Greece, animal ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A trove of Aztec sacrifices including a richly adorned jaguar dressed as a warrior and recently discovered in downtown Mexico City could lead archaeologists to the most ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A sacrificial wolf elaborately adorned with some of the finest Aztec gold ever found ... animal's heart was torn out as part of the sacrifice, just as captured warriors ...